About Face: Exploring the Graphic Identity of Craft Horizons Magazine, 1941-1979 || Guest Lecture with Sarah Archer from carolina journal online Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 23 min 80 sec ✓ Published: 11-Apr-2017
Description: This talk traces the rich and complex relationship between craft and graphic design, starting with a brief aesthetic overview of influential Arts and Crafts publication The Craftsman, which debuted in 1901, as well as the proliferation of how-to manuals, magazines, and kits that helped popularize the hobby craft industry during the interwar period. All of this material set the stage for Craft Horizons, which debuted modestly during World War II with a rather spare graphic identity, and, thanks t